Andrea Breen is a cross-arts artist with interests in improvisation, collaboration with other artists, performance, radio experiments and ecology. She creates acoustic art while researching the generative and interactive processes in sound, word, image and dance/movement. She is an educator, writer and creative arts therapist dedicated to social justice action and furthering understanding through imagination.

Projects 2018:

Nelipot Collective: Following on from seasons&reasons (2016),work has begun developing Adrift, a collaborative multi-arts performance piece on global warming and oceans. Preparation has included participating in the performers' development weekend Tasmania Performs 2016 with choreographer/collaborator Tullia Chung-Tilley and work-in-progress performances of Adrift.

coast-to-coastis my current 1-year project of improvised experiments in sound, text, improvisation and image: bringing together the island coasts of Tasmania and Ireland, leading up to, and including, another residency in Ireland, 2018 .

Recent collaborations and performances include:

Nelipot Collective development and performance (September 2017) of Adrift.

Works for solo and ensembles, including for community events (Hobart Fringe Festivals: Conundrum 2001 for dance; Clown Pieces 2002, music theatre);

Co-founded and performed with the Hobart women's improvisation collective (the all audreys, 2002-2011); directed the Cygnet Community choir for 6 years and participates in the National annual improvisation workout, Precipice;

Recordings from her experimental sound and poetry oeuvre have been broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's experimental sound art program Sound Quality (now decommisioned) and other ABC radio programs and community radio. Soundcloud name: bird_bluerobin.